Two gay men navigate some unexpected trials in their
fledgling relationship when one of them takes off on an
extraterrestrial contact experience.
After Andy Gage disappears from his San Francisco flat in the early hours of a June morning in 1995, his lover of three months, Richard Lang, is frantic to find him. When his search takes him to the slopes of Mount Shasta ten hours later, the couples’ mind-boggling metaphysical, multi-dimensional adventure together is only beginning.
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Andy Gage thought he knew who he was. He knew he was an empath, too often in synch with and in tune to the feelings of others. And because of it, he knew he had difficulty recognizing and trusting his own feelings. Andy knew there was more to All There Is than this three dimensional reality we live in. He was a survivor: an outrageous and outraged gay man in his late thirties who had fled his Midwestern upbringing in Indiana and gay life in Chicago to start over in San Francisco.
He had lost a lover to AIDS. And though still HIV negative himself, he was resisting Love in the form of the ardent advances of Richard Lang. He knew the only happy endings were in the classic movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age that he loved and into which he escaped as often as possible. He didn’t suspect that he had a few wake up calls coming
The story of Andy’s awakenings takes place in 1995 San Francisco, it could have taken place yesterday, it could have happened in any other place or time, but it didn’t.
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Marooned on Margo was to be the title of Jerry Thomas Boyd's first attempt at writing a novel. A satire of our own earthbound prejudices and what it feels like to be an alien outsider, it followed the story of a young, gay Earthling who was kidnapped and taken to the planet Margo to be the pet of a an evil Margonaut. After several years of extensively imagining the plot, the characters and the setting, Jerry abandoned the project.
Now in this book, he is presenting this background work including geophysical and geopolitical maps, details on languages and popular culture, cartoon drawings, collages, the explanatory section “A Traveler’s Guide to Margo,” and a short Margo story with cameo appearances by some of the characters intended to have had major roles in the novel. Indeed, you will find out ‘everything we know’ about the planet as seen through the eyes of someone who was marooned on Margo and returned to tell the tale.